Security issues with the iPad.com domain
As Apple prepares to amaze the world with their planned announcement today on whatever it is they are officially going to announce, I decided to take a look at the possible names for the device they are going to announce and see if I could get a sneak peek at the domains that might reflect [...]
An Open letter To Twitter – Dear Twitter, Come Back
Dear Twitter, You are a service with whom we stick around even though there were ample reasons to not do it. As a Twitter user from the days before mainstream users even started noticing you, I think I can take the liberty and vent my frustrations in the public. You are a fantastic person but [...]
Malware starts using Amazon EC2 as a Command and Control structure
This is one of those things you wait for, like the other shoe to drop, but with the movement away from the data center to the cloud, it is an expectation that malware would follow the migration. There is no reason to think that your cloud applications are any more secure than any of the [...]
I totally love Phishing when they are obviously juvenile
Well Ok I love it when Phishers are really being idiots, and yet another phising attempt fails to snare its intended victim, namely me, and namely because the phisher is being very stupid. I do a lot of shopping online so I am fairly sensitive to the loss of an account or someone trying to [...]
Microsoft Danger Sidekick Data Loss Sabotage
Words most CIO’s do not ever want to see the same sentence; Microsoft Danger Sidekick Data Loss Sabotage highlights some interesting aspects of companies, data loss, and the willingness of speculation as to the actual reason why something happened. In this case the ongoing issues with the Danger Data Center and how it has impacted [...]
Twitter Hack Exposes Internal Company Documents
While there are issues with publishing information that someone got via a hacking attack, often at times the information can be useful in many ways. Over the weekend Techcrunch was sent an unsolicited e-mail from a hacker that contained over 300 internal Twitter documents, and an explanation on how the various accounts was hacked. Techcrunch [...]
